AGACNP preceptor support for Pace University students

• Program: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• School: Pace University
• Directory location: New York, New York
• Verified pathways: MSN and post-graduate certificate
• Official evidence checked: July 21, 2026
• Clinical population: adults and older adults with complex, acute, critical, or unstable conditions
• Approval authority: the student's current program

A published AGACNP page confirms a current pathway, not every operational detail around clinical education. Use the links below as the source record, then verify the student's course documents before contacting a preceptor or site.

Official Pace University sources checked July 21, 2026 support the MSN and post-graduate certificate pathway record. Public program evidence answers whether the pathway is represented here, but the program must answer the separate questions about objectives, geography, hours, eligibility, and approval.

• Official AGACNP source 1, MSN: Official page explicitly identifies the AGACNP specialty (Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner MSv).
• Official AGACNP source 2, post-graduate certificate: Official page explicitly identifies the AGACNP specialty (Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP Certificate | Pace University New York).

These citations are included for verification, not as an endorsement of our service. Read the current official page and ask the program to confirm any requirement that affects the proposed preceptor or site.

Keep the adult-gerontology acute-care population at the center of the request. The setting needs enough complex and unstable adult care to support the approved competencies. Routine primary care, a general family practice, or an unrelated outpatient role cannot substitute for that clinical spine.

Depending on the objectives, the search may include ICU or critical care, step-down or progressive care, emergency care, hospitalist or inpatient medicine, trauma and surgical services, or an inpatient specialty such as cardiology, pulmonology, or nephrology. No setting is automatically acceptable. The program must decide whether the patient mix, acuity, clinician role, and available activities fit the course.

A MSN and post-graduate certificate listing tells us which AGACNP route appears in the official source set. It does not tell us where a student may complete clinical work or what a program will approve. Those answers belong in the current syllabus, handbook, and direct program guidance.

Course objectives are the bridge between a pathway label and a workable placement. Pair each objective with the patient population, acuity, setting, and supervised activity it requires, then ask the program whether the proposed combination is eligible before treating it as final.

Do not calculate this student's need from a national number. NTF recommends at least 750 direct patient care hours for an NP track, while AGACNP certification eligibility materials refer to a minimum of 500 faculty-supervised clinical hours. The current program determines the applicable total, course allocation, simulation treatment, and remaining balance.

Use the AGACNP clinical hours guide for national context and the preceptor requirements guide for screening questions. Neither guide replaces the program's current instructions.

A prospective preceptor is generally a board-certified acute-care nurse practitioner or an appropriately licensed physician whose current inpatient or acute role matches the objectives. Certification, licensure, experience, specialty, site, and relationship to the student may all matter, but Pace University decides which candidate is eligible. We document the candidate for that review rather than declaring approval.

New York, New York identifies the school record, but it does not define a clinical territory. A student may need to consider nearby or more distant acute-care services if the program permits travel. We confirm the allowed location before screening sites so outreach stays inside the student's actual boundaries.

The AGACNP placement guide for New York adds state-level context about acute and inpatient settings. Use it to frame the search, then apply the exact location and approval rules confirmed by the program.

• The exact course, clinical objectives, term dates, and remaining approved hours
• The approved geography, adult-gerontology population, patient acuity, and setting
• The proposed clinician's license, certification, specialty, acute role, and availability
• The site's service line, patient mix, and opportunities tied to the objectives
• Every current preceptor, site, compliance, and submission form supplied by the program

Before submission, assemble the candidate's license and certification details, current acute role, site and service, population and acuity, schedule, and fit with each objective. The program may request additional documents or decline the proposal. We never treat a complete file as a guarantee.

The first useful step is a complete clinical brief rather than a broad request for any preceptor. Share the student's approved requirements through the matching form. We can then search for acute-care fit without claiming authority we do not have.

Nothing on this page is issued by Pace University. AGACNP Preceptor independently looks for candidates against the requirements the student supplies, and the program retains full approval authority. A search may not produce an available or approved match.